Capitalism, specifically venture capitalism, relies on a premise of perpetual growth. That premise is a falsehood that works to justify the expansion and exploitation of millions of people in the past as justifiable in context of creating a “more convenient” world for the lucky, the few. What many in the US do not understand is how capitalism allows for oppression and systemic injustice when most of us were taught that free-market capitalism has natural checks and balances that incentives innovation and fair distribution of resources.
In an ever-increasing political culture, free-market capitalism has seen a corrupt utilization of bribery and financially incentivized lobbyist to protect the interests of corporate profit, justifying whatever means allows for continued flow of benefits to those at the very top. Of top concern are business that focus on venture capitalist goals of profit when providing services that affect life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. To that end Darling Mental Health is opposed to a number of institutions that have demonstrated inclination to seek profits regardless of the systemic impact on the population.
Insurance companies, for which any form of bonus or financial incentive exists to leadership, board members, or financial backers is problematic: through policies of denials, restrictive claim payments, or other forms of financial theft that create barriers between patients seeking care and medical providers needing to make a living in a world that often forces them to carry life-long student loan debt. Additionally, the operation of prisons where any form of profit is made, creates a system that incentives the justice system to fill the prisons with people who may or may not be best rehabilitated in such an environment, and in truth a revolving door of returning inmates is often the consequence we see when evaluating how for-profit / private prisons operate. Lastly, education should be something that is freely available and the degree of pay-wall barriers between education that can liberate a person (degree/diploma granting institutions) and impoverishment due to limited vocational avenues of development are morally reprehensible to us.
Darling Mental Health intentionally expanded to employ other therapists in a belief that a sustainable model of business ownership is ideal and should protect employees: provide fair and competitive wages, and limit profit to the owner to ensure that those who labor and work for the company are also the direct benefactors of such labor. To that end this company has a publicly disclosed shared-profit model to provide as much power and influence to the employees as possible, with a transparent language of clear and comparative understanding of how wages are assigned and earned. In this way we attest that employment should feel equitable and result in fair sharing of profit that benefits all and employers everyone to use extra monies earned to better our individual communities. Such philosophies and organization structures to our private business are done to align with the belief that we are all equal members of one human family.
